Of Mary Worley's Article 'In Defense Of Fat Acceptance'

Fat acceptance: A basic primer Critique essay Cynara Geissler’s article “Fat Acceptance: A Basic Primer” was first published in Geez Magazine in 2013. Geissler addresses a lot of issues about fat acceptance and how it is affecting our society and people’s attitudes towards over-weight people. One of the reasons why Geissler thinks that is because many health industries now days have a slogan “Thinner is better” and that makes over-weight people seem lazy or just not willing to put the effort to become better. Most importantly Geissler mentions that health industries and causing people to make a negative attitude towards overweight people which can be seen.

To be fat is being less than human. It is to have people spew hatred and venom at you, then expect you to eat it and digest it. They expect you to let it consume you like you consume everything else. They think that if they say really mean things to you, that you’ll get up off the couch and you’ll quit eating those Bon Bons while collecting food stamps and watching Jerry springer. Because that’s all you ever do right?

Body Image In America.. How do you feel about the way you look ? Most people would say they wish they were skinny and that they need to lose weight . Some would look in the mirror and say they need a bigger butt or even implants . Society has it where it’s all about body image.

Clinical History Marya’s experience with body dysmorphia and eating habits developed from an extremely young age. Recalling as far back in her life as age five, Marya had a different relationship with food than the typical child. At age three, Marya recalled hiding in her clothes hamper, claiming she was just the right size to fit perfectly inside of it, and how she wanted to stay that size forever. This particular memory of hers was remembered as if she has been watching herself from an outsiders point of view.

Every day, there are girls who look in the mirror and all they see is fat and ugly. Every day, boys look at themselves and say, “too scrawny”, “to fat”, “not enough muscles”. Every day people starve themselves just to fit into society’s mold of what the perfect person looks like. Every day we see stick thin models and buff male celebrities on television, in advertisements, and in other forms of media. The media influences people all the time to have a negative body image and nobody is doing anything to stop it.

Are Media Platforms Driving a Negative Society? On average, Social networking is bad for society because it portrays unattainable standards, provokes unhealthy behavior, and can result in depression and or suicide therefore, commentary should be banned. Social networking has built standards so high that most people cannot attain.

Throughout most of society, people feel the necessity to be accepted. Acceptance tends to be scarce and sporadic in the day to day world. Commonly in today’s age, people base themselves on expectations of others to obtain their approval. People struggle to acquire this acceptance in order to discover their social identity and determine where they sit on the “food chain.” The desire for acceptance induces people to alter themselves to fit in, the superior to profit from the inferior, and people to lose their true identity.

One of the most disputed aspects of the fashion industry and advertising is body image. Models today are getting thinner and thinner. Kirstie Clements, former Australian Vogue editor, says the industry is a thin-obsessed culture in which starving models eat tissues and resort to surgery when dieting isn 't enough. I began to recognise the signs that other models were using different methods to stay svelte. I was dressing a model from the US on a beauty shoot, and I noticed scars and scabs on her knees.

than that of sex symbols today such as Angelina Jolie. Consequently, we realize that the ideal body has considerably changed throughout the years. What is considered ideal has been presented by the media. Television, movies, magazines, internet expose us to “beautiful people”. It is worth mentioning that today’s ideal body presented by the media is achieved by less than 5% of females (John Crane p.164).

People tend not to sometimes love the body they were created in because of the way the media culture has acculturated certain body shapes and sizes. Body image refers to a person’s mental representation of their body. The way people view their body mentally can either be positive or negative. In today’s society, where the media culture and celebrities dominate almost everything, including a certain way people should look, have made most people have a negative body image. As a result of people having negative body image, it has contributed to many eating disorders, low self-esteem and low self-confidence.